Recently, there have been more reports of cardiac valve infections due to the increasing number of intravenous (IV) drug abusers and chronic renal failure patients. Among cardiac valves, tricuspid valve is most commonly affected in the course of endocarditis. Appropriate management of these patients is a challenging and controversial issue in the field of cardiac surgery. Treatment options in s...

In a survey of the Sheffield Region, Stuart-Harris, Twidle, and Clifton (1959) found that cor pulmonale was the commonest cause of heart failure resulting in admission to hospital. The investigation to be described was initiated when a patient in heart failure due to cor pulmonale was found to have a systolic murmur suggesting tricuspid incompetence which radiated down below the diaphragm into ...

This case study concerns a patient with disruption of both tricuspid and aortic valves: a previously healthy, adult man, who sustained a 5-meter fall from a building under construction. The mechanism of the injury was acceleration and deceleration, acting in two different phases of the cardiac cycle, i.e. systole and diastole. Simultaneous occurrence of these injuries is exceedingly rare and in...

OBJECTIVES Although right heart failure (RVF) is an important issue in the management of patients with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), the benefits of performing tricuspid valve repair in conjunction with LVAD implantation have not been demonstrated. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the records of 141 patients who received LVAD implantation as a bridge to transplant from May 1999 ...

BACKGROUND In patients with a right ventricle (RV) in the systemic position, tricuspid valve surgery for regurgitation beyond adolescence is a subject of debate. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the complications, survival, and benefit of tricuspid surgery in adult patients with an atrium-level correction for transposition of the great arteries or congenitally corrected transpositio...

Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a single-ventricle congen‐ ital heart disease that is fatal if left unpalliated. In HLHS patients, the tricuspid valve is the only functioning atrioventricular valve, and its competence is there‐ fore critical. This work demonstrates the first automated strategy for segmenta‐ tion, modeling, and morphometry of the tricuspid valve in transthoracic 3D ech...

Left ventricular (LV) to right atrial (RA) communication, also known as Gerbode defect, is very rare, usually congenital but sometimes also acquired. Cases of Gerbode defect have been reported after left valve surgery, usually valve replacement. We describe the first case of LV-RA communication following a tricuspid annuloplasty not combined to a left valve surgery. The case we report concerns ...

Correspondence to: Dr Rajdeep S Khattar, Manchester Heart Centre, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL, UK; rskhattar@ hotmail.com _________________________ T ricuspid and pulmonary valve regurgitation usually occurs as a secondary phenomenon caused by dilatation of the valve ring secondary to right ventricular failure or pulmonary hypertension, respectively. Primary dise...

from the right atrium (Figure 1B: MV, mitral valve; TV, tricuspid valve), from the right ventricle (Figure 1C), and lastly, a lateral view after offline subtraction of the anterolateral wall of the right ventricle (Figure 1D). The surgical analysis confirmed the 3D echocardiographic findings and additionally disclosed severe involvement of the subvalvular apparatus and endocardial deposit of pe...